Where to Find Matthew through Acts & Ancient Rome Books

Here are our suggestions for where to find the books we recommend for the Matthew through Acts & Ancient Rome study. You can also see these suggestions categorized by grade level.

Simply Charlotte Mason

• Book of Centuries (one for each student in grades 7–12; download a free basic one or purchase an expanded edition)
• Discovering Doctrine by Sonya Shafer (one for each student in grades 7–12)
• Foundations in Romans by Sonya Shafer (one for each student in grades 7–12)
• The Stuff They Left Behind: From the Days of Ancient Rome portfolio (Family)
• Visits to Europe notebook (one for each student in Family)

Public Domain

(You should be able to download these books as electronic files or read them online for free. The links will take you to a public domain source.)

• Ben Hur by Lew Wallace (grades 10–12)
• Beric the Briton by G. A. Henty (grades 7–9)
• The British Empire and the Great Divisions of the Globe by Charlotte M. Mason (optional for grades 4–12)
• Plutarch’s Lives, biographies of Julius Caesar and Marc Antony, by Plutarch (grades 10–12)
• For the Temple by G. A. Henty (grades 7–9)

Your Local Library

(These are the titles that a library is most likely to have. The links will take you to the CM Bookfinder, where you can find out if a library near you has a copy. If your library does not have access to a book listed here, add it to your Book Store list.)

• City by David Macaulay (Family)
• The Roman Colosseum by Elizabeth Mann (Family)
• Detectives in Togas by Henry Winterfeld (grades 4–6, opt. grades 1–3)
• Galen and the Gateway to Medicine by Jeanne Bendick (grades 4–6)
• Mystery of the Roman Ransom by Henry Winterfeld (grades 4–6, opt. grades 1–3)

Your Favorite Book Store

(The links will take you to Amazon.com or other book sources.)

• The Apostle: A Life of Paul by John Pollock (grades 10–12)
• Augustus Caesar’s World by Genevieve Foster (grades 7–12)
• The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare (grades 7–9)
• Children of the Northlights by Ingri and Edgar D’Aulaire (optional for grades 1–3)
• Dancing on Grapes by Graziella Pacini Buonanno (optional for grades 1–3)
• Hanna’s Cold Winter by Trish Marx (optional for grades 1–3)
• Hungry Planet by Peter Menzel (Family)
• Katje the Windmill Cat by Gretchen Woelfle (optional for grades 1–3)
• Material World by Peter Menzel (Family)
• Megan’s Year: An Irish Traveler’s Story by Gretchen Woelfle (optional for grades 1–3)
• My Tour of Europe: By Teddy Roosevelt, Age 10 edited by Ellen Jackson (optional for grades 1–3)
• Orani, My Father’s Village by Claire A. Nivola (optional for grades 1–3)
• Peril and Peace (History Lives series, Volume 1) by Mindy and Brandon Withrow (Family)
• The Story of the Romans by H. A. Guerber (Nothing New Press, third edition with 102 chapters) (Family)
• Then and Now Bible Maps from Rose Publishing (Family)